APC TO PDP-"you are paying for your years of impunity"

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has
dismissed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
notion that the governing party is persecuting its
officials in order to prepare ground for President
Muhammadu Buhari’s purported second term bid
in 2019.
The PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief
Olisa Metuh in a statement issued yesterday was
quoted to have stated amongst others that “The
APC is obviously seeking to destroy the PDP so
that it can push through Buhari’s second tenure
in 2019 without opposition from the PDP.
“The federal government is persecuting, and not
prosecuting, Col. Sambo Dasuki. The APC and its
leaders fear that Dasuki, given his vast political
and security network, may be harbouring a
presidential ambition, more so that the PDP has
zoned its presidential ticket to the north.”
The APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-
Oyegun, in a statement yesterday, said the party
would not join issues with what he called
‘childish and laughable conspiracy theories’ being
bandied by the PDP in relation to the 2019
presidential elections.
Chief Odigie-Oyegun said, “Whoever the PDP
picks as its candidate for the 2019 presidential
election is not the business of the APC. Relevant
laws in the country clearly spell out requirements
for persons seeking election into all political
office.
“The preoccupation of the APC and President
Muhammadu Buhari is to deliver on all the
promises made to Nigerians by the party during
the 2015 election. Looking back at the last seven
months, there are clear indicators showing that
the APC and the President Buhari administration
is on the right track to delivering on its Change
Agenda.
“The PDP speaks of a presidential directive to
security agencies and judiciary to “coerce” and
“convict” PDP leaders and officials of the
immediate-past administration with corruption
charges. Clearly such abuse of presidential
directives was a concept invented and effectively
deployed by the PDP during its defunct 16-year
rule. The APC is a law-abiding party and cannot
adopt such diabolical concept. The APC believes
strongly in the rule of law, as against the kind of
impunity Nigeria witnessed under the PDP for 16
years.
“We assure Nigerians that the PDP conspiracy
theories will not distract the President Buhari
administration, law enforcement and anti-graft
agencies from the successful on-going war
against corruption being waged on looters of our
common wealth. The ongoing war against
corruption is not selective. Anybody guilty of
corrupt practices will face the law,” he said.
According to him, “The PDP has chosen to blame
everyone but itself for the sorry state it finds
itself. The PDP should have known that it will pay
for its years of impunity, recklessness and
shocking mis-management of the country’s
commonwealth. PDP members who are genuinely
inspired by the APC-led administration are
welcome to the APC fold. It is their right to
abandon a sinking ship and join one that is
smooth-sailing.”